Give Us This Day: The Story of PrayerSteinerBooks, 1999 - Всего страниц: 256 Gandhi called prayer "the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening." But what is a prayer? Do you need to believe in God in order to pray? Why are the words important? What is the difference between prayer and meditation? Should you ask for things when you pray? Do prayers change the world around us? Rufus Goodwin--writer, linguist, and former United Press correspondent to the Vatican--addresses these and other questions about prayer in this thoughtful book. He examines the various traditions of prayer through the ages. He discusses practices, ranging from the ancient Indian yoga of sound to the Christian monastic rules of prayer, giving examples of the various religious litanies that ritualize and celebrate the sense of a higher life. Goodwin's intention is not to compare different traditions, but to get at the essential technique and the attitude of prayer--its cognitive workings. Prayer is seen as key to an active inner life and an experience of the higher self. He shows us how prayer can bring about a cognitive restructuring that provides greater access to renewal, imagination, inspiration, and intuition, and provides an anchor for meaning in daily life. |
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... Western Mantras 166 20. The Lord's Prayer 171 EPILOGUE : The Future of Prayer 176 APPENDIX A : Selected Prayers and Meditations B : Medicine in Prayer 197 GLOSSARY of Prayer Terms 207 BIBLIOGRAPHY 217 INDEX 223 137 185 FOREWORD by ...
... West Wind as Thou . This is the mood of invocation . It is , philosophically and gram- matically , the vocarive relation : the poet calls out , O Thou , to the universe . It is the grammatical case , the vocative , in inflected lan ...
... West Wind , joy , the fountains and meadows , or love , or time , or even death . The poet , in his inner life , impersonates the world , and all poetry is a kind of prayer to the universe . Edmund Waller ( 1606-1687 ) speaks and talks ...
... West , stems from the concept of centering on the middle — medius in Latin , the same word that has given us medicine . So the root of meditation is connected both to the golden mean , harmony , and to healing . Prayer , instead , stems ...
... West , this part of Eastern practice was later sometimes vaguely followed up in the practice of positive thinking ... West , sometimes begins not in formulas , but in thought exercises , and it is discursive . That is , it follows a ...
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The Wailing Wall Jewish Tradition | 42 |
Celtic Blessings | 49 |
Jesus at Prayer | 57 |
ACCESS TO PRAYER | 135 |
Seed Words for Sleepless Nights | 137 |
Stages or Meditation | 144 |
A First Prayer | 154 |
Mantras | 159 |
Western Mantras | 166 |
The Lords Prayer | 171 |
The Future or Prayer | 176 |
The Apostles Pray | 68 |
The Church Fathers | 75 |
Eastern Orthodox Tradition | 86 |
Prayer Rugs Islamic Tradition | 93 |
What Use Is Prayer? The Medievals | 104 |
The Dazzling Darkness | 113 |
Objections to Prayer | 123 |
APPENDIX | 185 |
B Medicine in Prayer | 197 |
GLOSSARY of prayer terms | 207 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 217 |
INDEX | 222 |